Combination fan and bag.



S. ZUCKER.

COMBINATION FANAND BAG. APPLICATION men FEB. 5. 1916.

1,1 92,364. Patented July 25, 1916.

WITNESS INVENTOR HIS A TTOR/VE V SAMUEL ZUCKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION FAN AND BAG,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1916.

Application filed February 5, 1916. Serial No. 76,331.

To all whom it may concern:

Be :it known that I, SAMUEL ZUCKER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Combination Fan and Bag, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide, in the form of a single article, both a fan and a bag, and to do this in such a way that the bag may be utilized as a part of the fan without in any way impairing its normal use as a container or receptacle.

To this end, the invention, in a preferred form thereof, comprises the combination of a fan-shaped body portion having a handle, a bag of flexible material fitted over and attached to said body portion with the handle of thelatter projecting through the mouth of the bag, and a draw string or cord for closing the mouth of the bag; this closing of the bag when empty causing the same to assume the general form of the fan-shaped body portion and adapting the complete article for use as a fan.

The invention in one form thereof is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a combination fan and bag, the same being shown in the position in which it is held when used as a fan, and Fig. 2 is a central section of the same, taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

The fan-shaped body, indicated at 2, to which the bag is attached, may be formed of any suitable material that will be light in weight and at the same time have sufficient body or stiffness to hold the attached bag in the desired fan-shape form. In the present case, I form such body by means of a plurality of plies of buckram stitched together. This body 2 is provided with a handle 3 which also may be formed in any suitable or desired Way. As here shown, it is formed in a separate piece having an attached shank 4: inserted between the plies of buckram to which latter it is secured by suitable fastening means, such for instance as a line of stitching 5. Associated with this fanshaped body 2 is a bag 6 of flexible material which is fitted over the body 2 with the hairdle 3 of the latter projecting through the mouth of the bag, as shown. In order. to maintain a proper relation between the bag and the supporting body 2, the bag is preferably fastened at one side thereof to said body, as by a line of stitching 7 so that the receiving chamber 0 within the bag will lie between the body 2 at one side and the op posite wall 8 of the bag at the other, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The usual inner lining, such as 9, will cover the body 2 within the bag and give the desired interior finish to the latter.

The bag is made to partake of the general form of the fan-shaped body 2 to which it is attached, as shown in Fig. 1, and is provided with an open mouth adjacent the handle 3 which is fitted with a draw string or cord 10 for closing the same; this form of mouth permitting of the bag being readily opened and closed without interference by the body 2, and when closed, permitting of the bag being contracted sufiiciently close at its mouth as to give the bag the desired fan shape appearance shown. The combination fan and bag thus provided is especially intended as an opera fan and bag, that is, a bag for use in carrying opera glasses and the fan for use as such when the glasses are removed from the bag. For such use, the bag may be formed of any suitable material,

but preferably and as here shown I cover the surface of the bag with ostrich feathers f suitably stitched thereto, which give the complete article a very handsome and attractive appearance. When the article is to be used as a fan, it will be grasped by the projecting rigid handle 3, and when it is used as a bag it may be carried by the cord 10.

What I claim is 1. A combination fan and bag, comprising a fan-shaped body portion having a handle, and a bag of flexible material attached to said body portion with its mouth adjacent the handle thereof.

2. A combination fan and bag, comprising a fan-shaped body portion having a handle, and a bag of flexible material attached at one side to said body portion to partake of the general form thereof and having its mouth adjacent the handle of said body portion.

3. A combination fan and bag, comprising a fan-shaped body portion having a handle, a bag of flexible material attached 9 handle, and a bag of flexible material fittedover said body portion with the handle of the latter projecting through the mouth of the bag.

5. A combination fan and bag, comprising a fan-shaped body portion having a handle, a bag of flexible material fitted over saidbody portion with the handle of the latterprojecting through the mouth of the bag,and a draw cord for closing said mouth of the bag.

6. A combination fan and bag, comprising a fan-shaped body portion having a handle, a bag of flexible material fitted over said body portion with the handle of them) Signed at NGVVYYOTk, in the county of 25 New York, and State of New York, this 2nd day of February, A. D. 1916.

SAMUEL ZUCKER.

Witnesses v LEO. FALKENBERG,

N. V. MGRATH.

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